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THE GUNMAN WHO opened fire in a Colorado movie theatre has been named as 24-year-old James Holmes.
The shooting took place just after midnight at the Century 16 cinema in Aurora, near Denver during a screening of the new Batman film The Dark Knight Rises.
Holmes is understood to be a local resident and he was detained by police outside the theatre.
Thirty-eight people were injured in the shooting and 12 were killed.
Earlier…
AGENTS IN FULL SWAT gear have surrounded the home of the gunman detained by police after the mass shooting at a cinema in Aurora, Colorado.
The shooter was apprehended after he opened fire at Century 16 movie theatre. He had walked into the theatre during a screening of The Dark Knight Rises, threw gas cannisters, believed to contain tear gas, around the cinema and then opened fire.
Police have revised the death toll to 12, and say thirty-eight people have been injured – a three-month-old baby is among the injured.
The gunman indicated that there were explosives at his apartment building at the junction of 17th Avenue and Peoria Street in Aurora.
Denver Bomb Squad has now arrived on the scene and twenty people have been evacuated from the building. They told reporters that police officers entered the building and said there may be explosives.
A large area has been cordoned off and the Denver’s FBI chief has confirmed that the suspect indicated that he had explosive material in his home.
Prank call
Meanwhile the Twitter identity of a prank caller who rang a local news station pretending to the the police chief Dan Oates. The prank caller indicated that a fifteenth person had died:
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Much too easy to get firearms in the states. Lived in Vegas for six years and anyone with a valid drivers licence could pick up guns at Walmart with little hassle. Remember seeing a crazed looking guy enquiring about different types of guns and ammo and the employee was answering all his questions no problem. Needless to say we made a quick exit. The world seems to be getting crazier every day.
Where are you getting this information , that you can just walk in and buy a gun from . The law differs state to state . Just because they sell them in a store does not mean you can just buy them .
Americans can purchase firearms after a criminal background check. Anyone with a felony (and certain misdemeanors such as domestic violence) or mental health issues is rejected. In some states a separate permit is required to carry a concealed weapon ( hand gun) .
The laws are very relaxed compared to Ireland per say but it’s not as easy as you suggest .
Just going from my own personal experiences in Nevada. Not sure of other states so can’t comment. But in Vegas it was easy enough to buy a gun, think they do a back ground check when purchasing but other than that it’s plain sailing and I personally knew a lot of young guys in their early 20′s who owned guns. It was just the norm for them.
Ridiculous. There’s a ban on KINDER EGGS and little to no regulation on gun use. Having been to the states, I can also say I’ve seen guns sold next to the TOY department in WalMart. What is wrong with this country?!
‘Sorry, son. No kinder eggs for you, you might choke. But look, we can get you a shiny new gun instead!’
Wtf.
Joan , It’s a crazy country but your Walmart analogy is incorrect . The gun maybe on display but you can’t buy a gun legally without a permit to carry a weapon . The problem is not the weapons , availability or even the fact they have the right to own a gun. The problem is individual people in a society that’s medicated up to their eyes.
If you look back over the last 13 gun sprees in schools etc , the teenagers that committed the violent murders/shootings were all on mind altering drugs . Over half on Prozac and the rest on ritalin prescribed for the infamous ADHD .
Millions of American teenagers are on these drugs and have been brought up on them from a young age .
Do the research and you will see how much doctors are paid in commissions to prescribe the drugs for kids .
The company’s who sell the antidepressants make over 3 trillion a year.
Just my penny’s worth !!
Read this if you doubt me http://www.naturalnews.com/020394.html
@Niall
While I agree overprescription of drugs is a problem in the United States, you’d need a lot of evidence to link it directly with gun rampages. Even if there is a correlation between people taking these drugs and such people being more likely to go on a killing spree it would be an expected correlation as, overprescription of drugs or not, you are more likely to be prescribed these drugs if you do have mental issues. Keeping guns from these people would be a far better way of preventing such incidents but unfortunately there is a huge gun culture in the US to the extent that military style weapons are freely available to the public. Even after the Gabby Giffords shooting the gun lobby still had enough clout to prevent laws limiting the magazine size on such weapons even though such gunmen have been stopped in the past when they first try to reload.
Niall Boylan, I could not agree with you more. And as far as the argument from MY EL531W that if you have mental issues then you’re more likely to be prescribed these mind altering drugs is the greatest hoax perpetrated on America. The doctors will concoct a diagnosis so that they can prescribe these dangerous mind altering meds (aka POISON). Once the patient is on these drugs, that’s when the physcosis really begins. There is a pile of evidence that Prozac is a mind altering dangerous drug that causes homicidal ideation and suicidal ideation but the drug company covered it up and so did the FDA – they all knew that it was a dangerous drug, but it was going to make them billions of dollars. Big Pharma has lots of blood on their hands and someday they’ll answer for it. So we shouldn’t blame the guns, we should look at the root of the problem – Big Pharma and their never ending lust for money!!!
Little background – was diagnosed with MS a couple of months ago. Guess how much 1 intramuscular shot per week for a month would cost….a whopping $4,000.00 – what’s in this medication? Gold? Oh, and of course you have to be on these drugs the rest of your life. That’s $48,000 per year and if I live another 40 years, that adds up to $1,920,000.00!!! Needless to say, I started doing some research and I absolutely refuse to have these pharmacuetical companies try to make a slave out of me. It’s really amazing what you find out about the drug companies and how the drugs are ‘tested’ if you just do a little digging.
The world is becoming more crazier than ever. 14 people wouldn’t have died in vain, has America tightened with the law on the sale of arm.
The availability of guns is not the problem. I could by a gun in Ireland tomorrow if I really wanted one. I wouldn’t as I would not have the urge to use one or want to murder somebody. As I said below read this and maybe it might go some way to answering the problem and it’s a problem that’s growing here too http://www.naturalnews.com/020394.html
RTE 1. Crime. Rte 2. Crime. TV3 Crime. What’s on people’s minds. CRIME Have a look at RTE guide to see just how often this is the case.
some men just want to watch the world burn
Crazy much
Canada has nearly just as many firearms per head of population as the States, so its not really correct to blame the gun culture in the States. How is it that something as miniscule as a border however leads to dramatic differences in the amount of homicides?
Serious tragedy.
It never stops, I would hate to live any where near America, it’s gun crazy what ever happens to these young people killing without a thought for the consequences to themselves or the people who’s lives they ruin, there is something gone very wrong with some of the youth of today…..
Googled “Denver Batman” earlier, this is what i got. The denver post website story, reported before the shooting. Banner ad on the page sums up the problem in some states. http://t.co/HcJP6Q0Q
That’s 20 miles from Columbine. Nuts.
A San Diego woman who identified herself as James Holmes’ mother told ABC News she had awoken unaware of the shooting and had not yet been contacted by authorities. She immediately expressed concern that her son may have been involved.
“You have the right person,” she said, apparently speaking on gut instinct. “I need to call the police… I need to fly out to Colorado.”
When your government is a violent bully that likes to get its gun off at every opportunity and part of your culture is violence and fear with the availability of guns, don’t be surprised if the citizens of that society is violent as well.
This son of the devil must be treated with “kid gloves”while in custody.
If not,his civil rights will be infringed and he will walk free.
How many,like me,would pay to inflict never ending,24 hours a day torture on this **,sorry,words fail me.
Madness!! And I agree with Niall, you can’t fill people full of drugs, prescription or otherwise and not expect some consequences… They are mind altering drugs!
Family guy was right. People actually got confused about being able To bear arms
reports have said 14 killed not 12
It’s a good thing having fire arms readily available ensures their freedom, otherwise their politicians might have to do something about it!
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